KC & The Sunshine Band- why did all their post 70s music flop so badly?

No "Boogie Shoes" in the poll? Die in a grease fire, OP!

R1 peaked at #35

The poll is their Top 10 hits.

It only hit #35??? Wow that's the only KC song I remember, and I was a kid when it came out.

Catchy music but really monotonous.

[quote] in 1979, literally before the '80s.

Why do you think the word "literally" belongs anywhere in that sentence?

R5 stfu

I always get them confused with Katrina and the Waves because they had that song "Walking on Sunshine."

Give It Up was extremely fun and a nice update to his funkier sound from the seventies. It would’ve been a bigger hit, but KC and his disco past seemed like a relic by that point.

There were two terrible but also wonderful Give It Up videos. Here’s the one where he’s wearing obvious makeup and skittering around onstage in tight pants showing off an apparently large penis.

And here’s the other, a melange of The Neverending Story, Willow, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, and Mad Max with some light bondage involving a muscleman and the cast of Cats.

Sadly forgotten forty years later.

Boogie Shoes belongs on the list because (a) it was originally the flipside of Shake Your Booty and (b) it was featured in the movie Saturday Night Fever and was on the soundtrack album.

Everybody knew that song in the 1970s.

R10 cool. But I didn’t ask what is your fav of all their songs you remember. It was their Top 10 hits only. Only 10 slots are allowed in the polls, otherwise I would have done every song charted by them

The first four songs in OP's poll are their only really great songs, although a lot of the rest of it is quite good. But those songs were from peak disco period, and by the 80s disco was not really a thing and their sound was hard to slot anywhere. (And the ballads are boring.)

Isn’t he supposed to be gay too?

No.

They had the first #1 Billboard hit of the 1980s.

R15 link???

Yes, he's gay.

R17 link?

Cocaïne. Lots of it.

He looks like Anna Paquin

Give It Up is fantastic.

He looks like he is about ready to have a heart attack. Yikes!

One of their best ^^^

His best song wasnt one of his Top 10s, it was 1982’s “Give It Up”. I still love that song. It’s such a feel good song. And he was a little older by then and thicker but still handsome.

R22, looks like he had to put his fat pants on, along with his boogie shoes

R25 it’s more like, “Shake, Shake, Shake, Shake your body fat!”

"1979, literally before we entered the 80s"

You are literally one sharp tack, OP.

r5 is right

I'm Your Boogie Man is probably my favorite song.

The '80s was a time of "Disco Sucks" and all of that. It makes sense that the band took a downturn in popularity.

At R8, that's such a lackluster performance and he hasn't even gained the weight, yet. He looks unhappy and deteriorated.

I am biracial. My African American grandmother was very religious, and probably suspected that I was gay. My sister and I stood on her coffee table and danced to shake your booty, while visiting her. We got whopped.

R29 lmao

To be fair r28 he was in a bad car accident in 82 that left him temporarily paralyzed and subsequently addicted to painkillers. He probably wasn’t in a good place at the time.

Yes he was in a terrible car accident.

R5 Maybe redundant but it’s not misuses you grammar cunt. I think the OP made a point of stating it that way because a lot of time the artists still had a hit or two after the time in reference. In this case, KC Sunshine literally had no more hits after 1979.

KC is gay, right?

People ran out of cocaine/cocaine became too expensive

His looks hit the wall in the 80's

Well he gained a lot of weight. That’s fine.